Perhaps we should make Farage head of the RNLI then? I don’t think he would have a problem in picking and choosing which people to save.The problem for the RNLI is that they have finite resources and sooner or later they are going to have to choose between assisting a boatful of refugees/ asylum seekers / economic migrants and professional seafarers and their passengers. Not a decision I'd want to have to make.
The RNLI have always had finite resources, and have always been under pressure. Thankfully they’ve seen a surge in donations recently, so hopefully that will help. Maybe we should invest more in the RNLI then if they are having more to deal with.
But ultimately it is down to the government and Border Force to sort out, and nothing to do with the RNLI.
Like I have said, they have already risked their lives getting to France so they may think they may as well try and get to the UK, where they feel they might have a better chance at a decent life.Those sound like reasons why people might want to come to the UK. They don't sound to me like things that would force them to come to the UK, making an extremely perilous trip in the process, if they are already in a democratic country in which they can claim asylum.
But anyway, the vast majority of refugees don’t want to make that journey anyway. They head to other Middle Eastern or African or European countries.
If refugees were made to go to the first ‘safe democratic’ country and no further, then places like Greece and Italy would be completely overwhelmed. I often see comments which say that asylum seekers should be made to ‘go back to France’ as it’s a safe country. With that logic, France would make them go back to Italy, and then Italy would be overwhelmed.
Dealing with this issue is an international issue, not something we can just let other countries deal with. But the hard right don’t care about that.
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